Home Guard Instruction No. 51 – Battlecraft and Battle Drill for the Home Guard. Part II – Battle Drill

The second part of this instruction that shows how well the Home Guard were trained for the fighting they may have had to do, defending the UK from raids and small scale landings in either built up areas or the countryside. This pamphlet details the training regulations as well as the drills they knew. It includes preparation, squad flanking attacks, battle platoon in action, battle platoon flanking action and the use of live ammunition.